The US Event was held on September 22-23, 2008 at the Westin in Princeton.

Agenda:

Monday 22 September

9am to Noon  Basic and Advanced End User Training

Noon to 1pm Lunch

1pm to 4pm The Spotfire Team presents on the latest in the Spotfire platform [Spotfire_Experience, Spotfire_IBD_Intro, Chemistry LS user Forum Sept08,ChemSeriesMockup2.dxp]

4pm to 5pm Keynote Presentation – "Embracing Uncertainty in Translational Science" David Shaywitz MD PhD, Consultant, Boston Consulting Group and co-author of the op-ed piece titled “Drug research needs serendipity” in the FT.  [presentation not available for download]

Tuesday 23 September

9am to Noon Presentations and Panel Discussion on the strategies and tactics of deploying Spotfire and growing adoption across diverse user communities
Chair: Christian Marcazzo

• “Building a strategy in steps to maximize the use of visualization software at an enterprise level:  A case study with Spotfire”  David Mack, Global Therapeutic Area Services, Pfizer
• "Spotfire at Eli Lilly: Challenges in a large Organization, Example Applications, Outlook", Dirk Tomandl, Computational Discovery Informatics, Eli Lilly [PPT]
• "Visualization or Application? Providing Visualizations in Context."  Jay Gill, Director Applied Biotechnology and Biology Informatics, Bristol-Myers Squibb [PPT]
• “Empowering pharma sales organizations with interactive sales performance data to better compete on analytics” jointly presented by Glenn Wong, Director of Operations, Trinity Pharma Solutions, LLC and Jeff Akin, Manager Sales Analytics, Astellas Pharma US, Inc. [presentation not available for download]

Noon to 1pm Lunch

1pm to 2pm Spotfire Keynote – “The future of analytics in Life Sciences”, Christopher Ahlberg, President TIBCO Spotfire Division and Founder of Spotfire

2pm to 4pm Parallel Application Breakout Sessions

Sales and Marketing Breakout Session
Chair: Barb Lyster
 
“ Integrating Managed Care Data and PLD data at the Local Level “ Shiraz Hasan, Wolters Kluwer Health PPT

“Using Spotfire to identify Managed Markets opportunities” Aaron Salamon,  Segment Market Research Manager, Endo Pharmaceuticals PPT

“The Marketing Performance Evaluator: Insights and Optimization for Direct Response” Ira Haimowitz, Ph.D., Vice President, Insights and Optimization, Wunderman, New York PPT

Competing on Analytics: How visual analytics and best practice market penetration can ensure a successful product launch  Broderick Jones, Senior Manager, Customer Relationship Management, Accenture PPT

Life Science Research Breakout Session
Chair: David Mosenkis
“Seamless retrieval and analysis of high content screening results with Spotfire DecisionSite”.  Don Jackson,  Applied Genomics, Bristol-Myers Squibb PPT

“Spotfire in Research at Amgen” Wolfgang Hoeck, Sr Manager, Therapeutic Area Systems, R&D Informatics, Amgen PPT

Clinical Genomics - visualizing gene expression data from clinical samples and adding pathway annotation Sujoy Ghosh, GSK

Clinical Trials, Drug Development and Translational Research Breakout Session
Chair: Don Sullivan

Exploitation of Efficacy and Safety Parameters in Clinical Development,  Marc Thibonnier CMO, Theranos

Using Spotfire to Quickly and Intuitively Analyze Drug Safety Data Steve Jolley, Vice President Patni

An Application of Spotfire to Visualize Preclinical Drug Development Data  Geoffrey Ganem, Genentech [PPT]